New Employee Indoctrination

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New Employee Indoctrination

• Chris Biddick Paul Grenz
• Jan 30, 2007

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Kitchen

• Refrigerator, Microwave, and Sink
• Please keep clean
• WE HAVE A MOUSE PROBLEM! Do not leave food out
  anywhere in the building

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University stuff

• Stephen has a wiki page http//wiki.lbto.arizona.
  edu/twiki/bin/view/Main/NewHireInformation
• Orientation
• CatCard
• Parking permit
• Keys
• NetID

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Building security

• Keep the doors locked to keep riffraff out
• You should have keys for your office and Steward
  exterior doors
• You should have three keys for the mountain
• Exterior doors for MGIO (base camp and all
  observatories)
• Most LBT interior doors
• Gate key

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Email

• Provided by Steward
• Thunderbird email client
• Web mail
• http//server_name/webmail
• Email lists maintained by Alex
• https//mail.lbto.arizona.edu/mailman/listinfo

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Operating system

• We are using CentOS 4
• Repackaging of Red Hat Linux
• Linux kernel 2.6.xxx
• Alex can provide details if interested

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Computer access

• We use LDAP to provide access to your account on
  any of the Linux desktops
• You can log in as you on any desktop
• Alex maintains LDAP
• You do not have root access
• Computer name lbtdunnn

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Computer access 2

• SSH
• Login
• ssh computer_name
• File copy
• scp options file_name1 file_name2
• Public-key
• ssh-agent

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Window system

• gnome, KDE
• gnome is used on the TO station on the mountain

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Shell

• Shell
• ash, bash, bsh, csh, ksh, sh, tcsh, zsh
• tcsh is used on the TO station on the mountain

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Editors and IDEs

• Editors
• vi (vim)
• emacs
• gedit basic wysiwyg
• IDEs
• anjuta
• KDevelop
• None

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C compiler

• The OS has been compiled with gcc 3.4
• The TCS is compiled with gcc 4.1
• On some machines gcc 4 may not be the default. To
  insure you always use it
• Define environmental variable MAKEFILES as
  /somepath/somefile where somefile contains two
  linesCXX g4CC gcc4
• Establish the following aliasesalias gcc
  gcc4alias cc gcc4alias g g4alias c g4

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CVS

• All the TCS software is in a CVS repository
• Requires authentication (not LDAP)
• Developer must maintain his/her stuff
• Root must have read access to work space

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CVS 2

• Needed environmental variables
• CVSROOT extusername_at_cvs.lbto.arizona.edu/expo
  rts/homes/cvs/
• CVS_RSHssh
• Web access
• cvs.lbto.arizona.edu/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/
• Authentication (shared, not LDAP)

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CVS 3

• Linux access
• Use ssh-agent public key to avoid typing password
  all the time (Michele has instructions)
• Optional make a .cvsrc file which contains the
  following two lines to establish defaults
• update -d -P
• checkout -P
• Command line
• tkcvs - GUI

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CVS 4

• We use tags to identify TCS software components
• Component_name_Version-maj-min-rel-bld
• Contained in Version file
• Applied with command make tag

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Additional tools

• make
• sudo
• epkg (encap)
• QT Designer
• doxygen

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Wiki

• Collaborative web system
• LDAP authentication for editing
• http//wiki.lbto.arizona.edu/twiki/bin/view/Main/W
  ebHome
• http//wiki.lbto.arizona.edu/twiki/bin/view/Main/L
  btoLinks

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Web calendar

• Keeps various schedules
• Software group meetings
• LBT bedrooms
• Conference rooms
• Telescope activities
• LBT vehicles
• http//webcalendar.lbto.arizona.edu
• LDAP authentication

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IssueTrak

• LBTO bug tracking system
• Operated by vendor
• Requires authentication (not LDAP)
• http//www.issuetrak.com/lbt
• http//wiki.lbto.arizona.edu/twiki/bin/view/Main/I
  ssueTrakDocumentation

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Drawing and document archive

• The official LBTO documentation repository.
• Based on CAN (Category/Assembly Number) index
  with sections for major telescope subsystems.
• Maintained by John Hill
• Many formats allowed
• http//abell.as.arizona.edu/hill/xlbt/
• 001s001 describes the archive
• 481s039 describes TCS document structure

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TCS on desktop

• You need a second ethernet interface
• Configuration file (LBT.conf) points to it
• Edit LBT.conf locally
• Run TCS network processes and subsystems for
  local testing

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Tucson test cluster

• lbtdu16 (TO station)
• lbtdu101, lbtdu102 (servers)
• Builds are installed here before going to
  mountain for testing

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MS Windows support

• wintermserv.lbto.arizona.edu is a Windows 2003
  server supporting Remote Terminal Services
• Use Remote Desktop on Windows XP
• Use rdesktop on Linux
• Office, Acrobat, Firefox, Ghostscript,
  Thunderbird, RsLogix 5000, Tornado 2.2, PIC
  compiler, VisualDSP, Borland CBuilder,
  Enterprise Architect, SSH, TortoiseCVS, XEmacs,
  XMLSPY,
• You can have your Linux home mounted as a windows
  network drive

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